Retreat to Victory?
Author | : Robert G. Tanner |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2001 |
ISBN-10 | : 084202882X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780842028820 |
Rating | : 4/5 (820 Downloads) |
Download or read book Retreat to Victory? written by Robert G. Tanner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Confederate armies attack too often for their own good during the Civil War? Was the relentless, sometimes costly effort to preserve territory a blunder? These questions about Confederate strategy have dogged historians since Appomattox. Many have come to believe that the South might have won the Civil War if it had only avoided head-on battles, conducted an aggressive guerrilla campaign, and manoeuvred across wide swaths of territory. This volume offers a consideration of this widely-held theory.